
June 2016
WWII History
Savage Fight for Seelow
By Victor KamenirFor Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and the people of the Soviet Union, the capture of Berlin was of great political and symbolic importance. Read more
Volume 15, No. 4
Cover: A Canadian M4 Sherman tank advances during the assult on Walcheren Island and the Scheldt Estuary in September 1944. Photo: National Archive
June 2016
WWII History
For Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and the people of the Soviet Union, the capture of Berlin was of great political and symbolic importance. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
In the shadow of Cedar Mountain on the southern outskirts of Culpeper, Virginia, Major General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson deployed the troops at the head of his column of march against a reinforced Union corps on August 9, 1862. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
The guns of the British warships assaulting the Cuban shoreline just east of Havana on the morning of June 7, 1762, roared to life in a flash of orange flames and grey smoke. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
The French cavalry thundered ahead, straight for the British open square. The red-coated infantry made ready for them, the front-rank knelt with muskets planted in the ground and their fixed bayonets pointed outward. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
British soldiers fixed their bayonets and waited tensely in the trenches for the order to go over the top. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
Late on the evening of June 13, 1645, King Charles I convened a hurried council with senior officers of the Royalist army at the village of Market Harborough in England’s East Midlands. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
The hot sun beat down on the mud-brick and wooden buildings, the lush orchards, and the patchwork of pastoral fields around the oval-shaped, walled city of Damascus in southern Syria on the morning of July 24, 1148. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Editorial
It is a given that troops who are successful in battle are those that have confidence in themselves and in their commanders, and this was the case with the Confederate soldiers serving under Maj. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Valor
One of the smoothbore cannons in Captain Merritt B. Miller’s Third Company of the Washington Artillery deployed west of Emmitsburg Road just south of the town of Gettysburg fired a single round at 1:07 p.m. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Weapons
It was the early-morning hours of June 13, 1917, when a group of German aircraft began its final preparations for a very special mission, which amounted to the first fixed-wing bombing of London. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Uniform
The British Air Ministry established the British Airborne forces on June 22, 1940, at the request of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Soldiers
Venetian military engineer Gabriel Tandini listened intently in the semi-darkness of the Knights Hospitaller counter-tunnels beneath the walls of Rhodes for sound of Turkish sappers trying to dig under the city’s walls. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Books
The Six-Day War began on June 5, 1967, with a lightning assault by Israeli armored units and aircraft. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Games
In the world of strategy games, there are those geared more toward casual play and those for long-time tactical players with a keen eye for complexity. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Games
It’s time to explore a very different era of history, because THQ Nordic and developer Logic Artists recently unleashed another in-depth historical strategy outing in the form of Expeditions: Rome. Read more